Africa, World

A Guinean, Hamidou Sowe, was last Tuesday sentenced to one week in jail for committing perjury. Hamidou was sent to jail following a judgement...

Circumstance, rather than planning, has placed the battle against HIV/AIDS firmly in the hands of Swaziland's 355 chiefdoms. The...

President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo has urged dissident General Laurent Nkunda to integrate his forces voluntarily into the...

Tanzanian authorities are persuading people in villages near Ol Doinyo Lengai to move to safer areas after the volcano erupted. Since July,...

A leader of one of the rebel groups in eastern Chad warned a proposed European Union (EU) force that it will be a target if it takes sides in the...

Maize and wheat prices have shot up to their highest levels since 2000 in the past few months, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation...

Trying to measure the impact of the Zimbabwean exodus on HIV/AIDS rates in the region is so fraught with ifs, buts and maybes that the only...

Barely two days after Observer Sports reported on Jaysuma Saidy Ndure’s decision to run for Norway instead of his native Gambia, the national...

Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, Vice- President and Secretary of State for Women's Affairs, yesterday morning returned to Banjul after attending the...

The Department of State for Health and Social Welfare has issued a rejoinder refuting an article published by the Foroyaa Newspaper, dated 12-13...